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Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

I write novels and other things.

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.